Pablito123
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About 2 weeks ago i noticed my 250hps cycling (turning off and then after cooling down turning on again). I just seem that hapen once so i tought it may had been a power surge or something that made the lamp turn off.
So, last week and also yesterday the same thing hapened, she started to cycle another 2 times(that i've seen, could have been more..).
So today i went to the hydro store so i could buy a brand new 250hps and i did. i bought a lamp equal to the one i had before, the Agrolite HPS 250wFlo&Gro that i use for veging.
So i arrived home and changed the lamp, out with the old one and enter the new one.. And.. to my surprise she doesn't work!
The ballast just tries to fire it up but nothing happens on the lamp, no glow at all, not even a small one. It acts like the ballast isn't even connected to a lamp, it just makes that vibration/noise that ballasts do when they startup but it stays allways that way without nothing hapening on the lamp.
So i went to the hydro store again (another 120kms.. ) and to my surprise the lamp works there!!!!
The guy in there tried to connect the lamp to a ballast also equal to mine (but a newer model almost equal) and the lamp fires up quickly without any problem at all.
So then i went home again with the "new" lamp to try to change the reflector or review the wirings/fixing.. and that i did.. i tried with another reflector making sure the wiring is done ok and nothing!!!
Nothing at all, the situation remains the same, the ballast tries to fire up the new lamp but nothing happen!
So i tried to plug the old hps that i was using until yesterday(the one that started to cycle) and she works!!!
The ballast fires up the old one but doesn't fire up the new one.
What's happening here?
I've read that the older the lamp the less power it needs to fire it up, but after a while old lamps draw more power..
Why does my ballast only works with the old lamp?
Do i need a new ballast? I'm really short of cash, like i never been as bad before and i've had so many missfortunes that it seems some greater entity is working against me
I just want to grow bud and i am tired of having to resolve problems almost everyday..
Please help
So, last week and also yesterday the same thing hapened, she started to cycle another 2 times(that i've seen, could have been more..).
So today i went to the hydro store so i could buy a brand new 250hps and i did. i bought a lamp equal to the one i had before, the Agrolite HPS 250wFlo&Gro that i use for veging.
So i arrived home and changed the lamp, out with the old one and enter the new one.. And.. to my surprise she doesn't work!
The ballast just tries to fire it up but nothing happens on the lamp, no glow at all, not even a small one. It acts like the ballast isn't even connected to a lamp, it just makes that vibration/noise that ballasts do when they startup but it stays allways that way without nothing hapening on the lamp.
So i went to the hydro store again (another 120kms.. ) and to my surprise the lamp works there!!!!
The guy in there tried to connect the lamp to a ballast also equal to mine (but a newer model almost equal) and the lamp fires up quickly without any problem at all.
So then i went home again with the "new" lamp to try to change the reflector or review the wirings/fixing.. and that i did.. i tried with another reflector making sure the wiring is done ok and nothing!!!
Nothing at all, the situation remains the same, the ballast tries to fire up the new lamp but nothing happen!
So i tried to plug the old hps that i was using until yesterday(the one that started to cycle) and she works!!!
The ballast fires up the old one but doesn't fire up the new one.
What's happening here?
I've read that the older the lamp the less power it needs to fire it up, but after a while old lamps draw more power..
Why does my ballast only works with the old lamp?
Do i need a new ballast? I'm really short of cash, like i never been as bad before and i've had so many missfortunes that it seems some greater entity is working against me
I just want to grow bud and i am tired of having to resolve problems almost everyday..
Please help